In the end, it’s the individual advantage that counts
In a lake or river, between one and 10 million bacteria live in just 1 ml of water. Such a high density is necessary because...
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Pulmonary and primary care experts share clinician toolkit on Rare Disease Day to raise awareness for interstitial lung disease
Glenview, IL, February 28, 2023 – The expert steering committee for Bridging Specialties™: Timely Diagnosis for ILD is encouraging primary care and pulmonary clinicians to...
Super-fast insect urination powered by the physics of superpropulsion
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Saad Bhamla was in his backyard when he noticed something he had never seen before: an insect urinating. Although...
Jurassic shark – Shark from the Jurassic period was already highly evolved
Cartilaginous fish have changed much more in the course of their evolutionary history than previously believed. Evidence for this thesis has been provided by new...
Digital twin opens way to effective treatment of inflammatory diseases
Inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis have complex disease mechanisms that can differ from patient to patient with the same diagnosis. This means that currently available...
Your gut’s microbiome, on a chip
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2023 – The gut is one of the most complex organs in the body. Inside, it teems with a diverse microbial population...
From anti-antibiotics to extinction therapy: how evolutionary thinking can transform medicine
The word ‘evolution’ may bring to mind dusty dinosaur bones, but it impacts our health every day. For example, even though antibiotics were invented only...
How to predict city traffic
A new machine learning model can predict traffic activity in different zones of cities. To do so, a Complexity Science Hub researcher used data from...
Australia’s rarest bird of prey disappearing at alarming rate
Australia’s rarest bird of prey - the red goshawk - is facing extinction, with Cape York Peninsula now the only place in Queensland known to...
Local leaders announce plan to strengthen health services in Imperial County
Representatives from the City of El Centro, El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC), and UC San Diego Health today announced a strategic and operational plan...
Forgoing one food treats eosinophilic esophagitis as well as excluding six
Eliminating animal milk alone from the diet of adults with eosinophilic esophagitis, or EoE, is as effective at treating the disease as eliminating animal milk...
Study examines COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on Black, Latina women’s mental health
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Concerns about job disruptions and loss of income were associated with increased depressive and anxiety symptoms in Latina women early in the...
National study seeks patients with ATP1A3 mutations to better understand these disorders and discover potential treatments
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Imagine waking up one day and finding that you are suddenly having difficulty swallowing, walking and talking. You start experiencing involuntary muscle...
New testing approach diagnoses COVID-19 with near-perfect accuracy
By inspecting the body’s immune response at a molecular level, a research team has developed a new way to test patients for COVID-19. Their method...
Gun violence spills into new neighborhoods as gentrification displaces drug crime, according to WVU study
Gentrification doesn’t erase drug crime and gun violence. Instead, research from West Virginia University economist Zachary Porreca shows that when one urban block becomes upwardly...
